Whatever happened to our roads?

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Doc Holliday

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I remember moving here in '98, traffic was enjoyable and the roads were smooth as glass. Now there are potholes that will knock out your teeth when you hit them at 65-70 mph, you can practically hear your upper control arms breaking...

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That section of the 202 is basically a mine field at this point. After every big rain storm there are 4-10 new big chunks of rubberized asphalt missing.
 
The 202 by Kyrene is being stripped. I drive it everyday for work, it is sooooo much nicer now that it is just the concrete.
 
You guys should drive around places that freezes several times every year. People regularly lose whole corners of their vehicles around here.


To make it worse they build these toll Express lanes in the middle of the freeways here. They save money, I guess, by draining them during rain storms onto the regular freeways. We get 30 plus inches a year and sometimes a couple an inches an hour. That creates small rivers flowing across regular traffic on a freeway last redone about the time Kennedy was shot. That washes out all the patches in the pot holes and creates a gauntlet of hydroplane traps. Dozens of single car head on into the wall wrecks every time it rains.

No, I miss my home town freeways.
 
Californication.

As money gets moved into paying the mortgage for refugees, redfored, healthcare, food stamps, etc., it gets moved away from things like roads, that are used by people with things like jobs.

There are bad roads now, don't be surprised when you start seeing more trash, more junk cars, tents on the sides of the roads, weeds and overgrown bushes/trees, more walkers in the streets, entire neighborhoods going to crap, and higher taxes.
 
weenis said:
Californication.

As money gets moved into paying the mortgage for refugees, redfored, healthcare, food stamps, etc., it gets moved away from things like roads, that are used by people with things like jobs.

There are bad roads now, don't be surprised when you start seeing more trash, more junk cars, tents on the sides of the roads, weeds and overgrown bushes/trees, more walkers in the streets, entire neighborhoods going to crap, and higher taxes.
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Moving to Montana then.

Montana and Wyoming will be Americas Last Stand.
 
knockonit said:
rubberized asphalt baby, doesn't cut the mustard at all,
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Rubberized asphalt is great. It's quiet. It does however require regular reapplication. Ever since the 08 crash the schedule for remove/replacing the material has been steady ignored, leading to the roads we have today.
 
Solar_Empire said:
The 202 by Kyrene is being stripped. I drive it everyday for work, it is sooooo much nicer now that it is just the concrete.
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Agreed, we went to Lone Butte Casino a couple of weeks ago and could feel the car rattling itself apart getting closer to the Kyrene exit, a week later it was nice and smooth.
 
Here in Lake Havasu US-95 that runs through town has some really bad areas, that will jar your fillings loose. Especially near the north end of town where I live. Other areas are not so bad.

Some places near intersections it looks as if they chewed the asphalt down with one of those pavement strippers, then just left it. I guess the state is too busy wasting money somewhere else.
 
I will say, however, that Hwy 88 (Apache Trail) all the way to Tortilla Flat has been refinished and is like glass now. I'm sure the tourist traffic and all the weekend boaters will screw it up again, though.
 
For those of you that receive the free Impact newspaper, there's an article about this. They're proposing an 18¢/gallon gas tax phased in over 3 years to pay for the repairs.
 
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